The new major version of Lemmy is now ready, and we need your help with testing. Most importantly it uses HTTP for API requests now, which is much more efficient than websocket. Additionally Two-factor-auth is supported. There are also countless other improvements and bug fixes.
You can register on any of the following servers to start testing, no approval required. You can post to your hearts content to find out if anything is broken. The test instances only federate with each other to avoid affecting production instances with spam.
If you encounter any bugs that aren’t present in 0.17, open an issue and mention in the title that it happened with a release candicate version. Over the next days we will publish new RC versions to fix bugs that will invariably pop up.
Instance admins can try the new version by using Docker images dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.18.0-rc.2 and dessalines/lemmy:0.18.0-rc.1. Make sure that working backups are in place. For production instances its better to wait at least some days for the major issues to be fixed.
I hope that in future versions you will be able to use lemmy without javascript, or at least will be able to read posts without it. I know that everyone uses js monstrosities nowadays, but this seems like a project born out of care and not out of need to ship product under a deadline.
I don’t demand for people to drop everything and work on it, just hope that this is kept in mind in future.
Is “Local” removed by default?
A random note- federation, is being very weird for this particular server.
│ 2023-06-21T14:16:09.127573Z WARN activitypub_federation::core::activity_queue: Queueing activity https://lemmyonline.com/activities/follow/d6d4fccb-c1e3-40ea-918b-6426d3080b3f to https://lemmy.world/inbox for retry after failure with status 502 Bad Gateway: <html> │
│ <head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head> │
│ <body> │
│ <center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center> │
│ <hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)</center> │
│ </body> │
│ </html>
(Also- I can’t actually see replies to this, due to… federation acting very weird with this particular server…)
Also- Is, there a changelog available for the upcoming 0.18 release?
We’ve pushed up a new UI version for testing there: lemmy-ui:0.18.0-rc.3 .
Back-end should also be done in a few hours.
A bit off topic, but can something be done about the power mods? I see a few users already forking every subreddit trying to ensure they remain a mod. No user can meaningfully manage 50-100+ communities.
Please consider capping the limit to 20 or less. First-mover advantage is huge, so starting up a community down the road to prevent this consolidation of privileges is likely out of the question.
If you get a bad mod, you can always move to a community on another instance. That’s one of the advantages of federation.
I think this is something reddit users generally have a hard time grasping about lemmy, including myself.
One of the fundamentals of the fediverse is that there will be communities with the same name on different instances. Users can subscribe to good ones and / unsubscribe from bad ones as they wish.
I think you have the right problem with the wrong answer.
It’d be better if communities could subsume other, worse-moderated communities with the same name in some integrated/organic way.
I mean, I could run c/politics on some server, but if another 20 or 30 instances agree on c/politics that’s the winner. If they agree on c/politics because it’s the better one and cross-moderates in some way, more power to them.